More New York counties join the resistance to switching from lever machines to optically scanned ballots. Smartmatic brought the wrong cable to its all-important demo in the Philippines and caused a short circuit in the optical scanner. Voter ID and Internet voting continue to be in the news. And an error was discovered in TrueBallot’s counting of the votes in Aspen’s IRV election – but it didn’t affect the outcome....

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Good news: The Texas Voter ID died quietly at midnight Tuesday night. House rules require at least initial floor action on bills five days before adjournment, which us June 1st. Democrats slowed up House business enough that the Voter ID was not introduced on the floor for initial action before Tuesday night's deadline.

Bad news: Other legislation behind the Voter ID bill on the calendar was not introduced on the House floor for initial action either.